Guidance
“Things that keep talented people from fulfilling their potential:
- Trying to please everyone
- Imitating the desires of others
- Chasing status without questioning why
- Playing superhero and trying to do it all alone
- Dividing attention between too many projects
James Clear • 3-2-1: The simple path to wealth, how time works, and things that hold talented people back
Make it a point of principle to do things, not because the thing is necessarily the perfect action, but because I choose the life where I do things, over the life where I always wait for the perfect opportunity.
Notice the small problems, and fix them. Notice when everyone isn’t enjoying what they’re doing, and be the first person to voice this. Not... See more
Notice the small problems, and fix them. Notice when everyone isn’t enjoying what they’re doing, and be the first person to voice this. Not... See more
Neel Nanda • Mini Blog Post 3: Become a Person Who Actually Does Things
You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.
Imagine if we could turn off the fear of making something lame. Imagine how much more we'd do.
Paul Graham • Early Work
The right way to deal with new ideas is to treat them as a challenge to your imagination — not just to have lower standards, but to
switch polarity
entirely, from listing the reasons an idea won't work to trying to think of ways it could. That's what I do when I meet people with new ideas.
switch polarity
entirely, from listing the reasons an idea won't work to trying to think of ways it could. That's what I do when I meet people with new ideas.
